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SAN FRANCISCO · THE PSYCHEDELIC ERA · 1960s

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August 22
BG-79

BG-79 · Bonnie MacLean
Catalog Number
BG-79
Series
Bill Graham
Venue
Fillmore Auditorium
San Francisco
Date
August 22, 1967
Artists
Bonnie MacLean
Nickname
Butterfield Blues Band / Cream / Southside Sound System (BG-79, opening)
Performers
Butterfield Blues Band
Cream
Southside Sound System

Butterfield Blues Band / Cream / Southside Sound System (BG-79, opening)

On Tuesday, August 22, 1967, Cream began their first Fillmore residency. Bonnie MacLean's BG-79 carried the run, and the Fillmore Auditorium listings for the 22nd — and for every night of the stand — bill it in this order: the **Butterfield Blues Band**, then Cream, then Charlie Musselwhite's Southside Sound System, with the Headlights light show. That ordering is worth honouring rather than quietly correcting.…

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BG-133

BG-133 — Fillmore West

Bill Graham · 1968 · Alton Kelley, Rick Griffin
Grateful Dead · Kaleidoscope · Albert Collins

Thursday, August 22, 1968 closed the Grateful Dead's leg of BG-133 at the Fillmore West — the third and last Dead night, with Kaleidoscope and Albert Collins. Kaleidoscope were a Los Angeles band and one of the genuine oddities of the period: David Lindley and Solomon Feldthouse leading a group tha…

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